AI is coming to your Bing and Google searches, Apple’s M2 chip and Super Bowl streaming

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And now let’s move on to this week on AI, I mean this week on tech news.

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Microsoft and AI: This week, Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, told a press event that “it’s a new day for research.” He was referring to the company’s integration of OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 with the 13-year-old search engine Bing. The hope, according to the folks in Redmond, is that the integration will help Bing better compete with Google. App downloads increased 10-fold after news broke about the AI, as Microsoft promises priority access to the new Bing for those who have it installed. I want to go deeper See Frederic’s practice with the search engine.

Google and AI: Not to be outdone, Google this week announced Bard, its OpenAI ChatGPT counterpart. It is currently being tested and will use Google’s conversation app language model to power conversational AI, which uses information from the internet. But Devin also says the company is losing control.

MOM is the word (sorry, that was too easy): Google also announced this week that its Multiple Search feature, which allows users to search by image and text, is now available worldwide on mobile devices. And guess what drives multisearch? AI technology called Unified Multitasking Model. BREASTS!

GitHub layoffs: This week, Microsoft’s GitHub announced that it would lay off 10% of its 3,000 employees. As part of an effort to “protect the health of the company in the near term,” GitHub will also be closing all of its offices and working completely remotely.

Apple executives on the M2: In an in-depth interview with Apple’s vice presidents, my boss and TechCrunch editor-in-chief Matthew Panzarino explored the company’s latest M chips and dove into the M2 MacBook Pro and Mac mini models. Spoiler alert: they’re faster.

India blocks gambling and lending apps: India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has called for a ban on 232 gambling and lending apps to protect user data, among other things.

Football!: It’s time for Super Bowl LVII and there are ways to stream it. All details can be found here.

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On Equity this week, Natasha spoke with Cleo Chief Business Officer and former CEO SJ Sacchetti about ego, setting boundaries, giving up, and becoming a “statistician,” and why a business should be able to thrive without you. And on Found, Darrell and Becca spoke with Keta Burke-Williams, founder and CEO of direct-to-consumer perfume company Ourside, about what sparked their interest in transforming the sprawling and aging fragrance industry.

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TC+ subscribers have access to in-depth comments, ratings, and polls that you know if you’re already a subscriber. If not, you must apply. Here are some highlights from this week:

The AI ​​bias: Dom reports that bias exists in most aspects of AI, from investment and hiring to data collection and production. So the question remains: Who is AI’s next frontier for anyway?

The African startup ecosystem: Record investments in African startups were recorded last year. Tage spoke to eight investors and found that pre-seed and early-stage investors were crucial. But there is still a long way to go.

Dismantling the Spinach.io pitch deck: Haje turns his attention to the seed platform of Spinach.io, the company that develops its meeting tool for engineers.

For Cybersecurity Professionals: Contributor David J. Bianco writes about the defender’s dilemma: “The idea that attackers get all the benefits and that defenders should be passive and wait for a response is practically an axiom of cybersecurity. It’s also a lie.”